Uganda
LWF’s Water System Transforms Healthcare at Kabala Health Center II, Northern Uganda

 
Uganda Cash Consortium receives €6m from the EU to provide cash assistance to refugees
4 August 2022
Additionally, cash for Education in Emergencies (EiE) will be provided to over 23,800 children and adolescents who are currently out of school or at risk of dropping out. This assistance will be provided during the third term in 2022 and 2023.
Peer support demonstrates good mental health-seeking behaviours among distressed refugees
29 July 2022
  Withdrawing from drug abuse and alcoholism as a coping mechanism has sparked Alex Duku's mental health activism. The 32-year-old in Northern Uganda's Boroli settlement in Adjumani district is now a model mental health community-based psychosocial ambassador. ...
Vocational skills tailoring refugees to self-reliance
29 July 2022
  Hosting over 40,000 refugees, majorly from South Sudan, the Palebek settlement in Northern Uganda, like others, has refugees operating several small income-generating activities aimed at economic self-reliance. These activities include hairdressing, tailoring, ...
The Care group approach improves child health and nutrition in host communities
26 May 2022
  In Northern Uganda’s Obogubu village is Aishya Baako, one of the trained volunteers who teach essential practices for good hygiene and infant care in her community. Subsequently, the initiative has improved healthcare-seeking behaviours decreased malnourished ...
The community service approach restores hope among vulnerable refugees
26 May 2022
 
Community-based interventions reduce malaria cases in selected sub-counties.
26 May 2022
  For the past five years, the cases of Malaria reported at ItakaIbolu Health centre ll have reduced more than thrice. The health centre located in Eastern Uganda's Luuka district is one of the governments funded that have benefitted from the Luuka Community ...
House construction with plastic reduces solid waste in settlements
26 May 2022
  With over a 1.5million refugees hosted in Uganda, there is increased degradation of soils, water, and tree cover, leading to several irreparable damages.This takes the form of waste, such as plastics littered in gardens, water points, and homesteads,thus ...
LWF drills 84 new boreholes and rehabilitates 56 others to increase water access
23 May 2022
 
LWF reactivates emergency response in Rwamwanja refugee settlement
23 May 2022
  A total of 7,537 refugees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo arrived at the Ugandan border point of Bubukangwa in South Western Uganda's Bundibugyo district between February and March this year. The UN refugee agency has resettled the ...
Facilitating quicker access to justice for refugees
23 May 2022
  Uganda hosts over 1.4m refugees, mainly from neighboring war-torn South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are prone to crime as they get accustomed to the foreign law. These also pressure the already inadequate ju­dicial resources, yet the ...
LWF provides ambulances for refugee mothers
23 May 2022
  In April 2020, Rebecca Mapen­do was three months pregnant when she felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen. The 31-year-old Congolese refu­gee lives with her husband in the kyangwali settlement located in South Western Uganda. Mapendo was thrown off ...
Cash grants assist refugees in meeting their non-food basic needs
23 May 2022
On March 15, 2018, Ms Scovia Avico entered Uganda along with her three children. Avi­co left Njugu, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Uganda not as a visitor or a tourist but as a sole option to escape the never-end­ing conflict back home that ...
Community-based Interventions help South Sudanese refugees to heal from mental distress
28 April 2022
36-year-old Lilly Amal, a South Sudanese refugee, is not letting her mental illness history hold her back. Instead, she uses it as a platform to support others with mental distress. Thanks to the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and ...
Reskilling and cash grants aid self-reliance among youth refugees in Kyangwali settlement
28 April 2022
  With the majority hardly equipped with any skills after the tension in their countries, refugees are prone to poverty even in host countries like Uganda, with favourable refugee protection policies which allow them to engage in entrepreneurship.  
Multi-Purpose cash transfers for vulnerable refugees improve Livelihoods in Kyangwali settlement
26 April 2022
  Uganda continues to be home to over 1.5 million people on the move, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and other neighbouring countries. Political unrest, insurgencies and tribal wars force the millions of people to seek refuge ...
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